Marilyn Kaye
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 10
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
A thrilling science fiction novel. 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Twenty five teenagers at an overcrowded New York City school have a basement classroom. One day, they emerge to find that everyone else in the city, and possibly the Earth, has vanished from site, leaving no clues as to where they could have gone. Now it's up to the teenagers to discover where everyone else has gone before the same fate befalls them. This was an edge-of-your seat science fiction thriller with a realistic view of what might happen if just a few teenagers and no one else was left on Earth. Unfortunatley, the last book in the series was a dissapointment.
Q: What could have ruined such an interesting premise. 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 6 people found this review helpful.
A: Thoughtless plagarism. And I don't mean each character which is obviously (or is that obliviously) ripped from the stereotypical world of today's TV teen. The loner, the politician's son, the nerd, the twin, and (of course) the supermodel? These characters have no more depth than these two word outlines. The plagarism I'm talking about is a paper thin retracing of a classic 1940Welles novel. Much of the novel dumps what I think is a promising premise for mindless character drivel. Instead of cleaver ideas, Marilyn Kaye has filled the book with cliches sponged out of a melodramatic mish-mash of failed romance and weak mystery novels. The plot can't stretch what few surprises it holds long enought for the characters to read like they are intelligent (or even capable) human beings. I can't tell you how many times I chided the characters for 'conveniently' forgetting about what they should know. Last On Earth is out of this world. Perhaps it should have stayed there.
Editorial Review:
Twenty-five high school seniors emerge from their basement geometry class to an eerie silence in a deserted school. Outside, empty buildings, stores, restaurants, and abandoned cars line once crowded streets. Stunned disbelief is followed by alarm, curiosity, sorrow...and the horrifying realization that, for better or worse, they have inherited the Earth.
